Recently, I have become very interested in Alibaba’s corporate culture, so I read three books in a row, from "Data Middle Platform - Making Data Use" to "The Way to Transform Enterprise IT Architecture - Alibaba Middle Platform "Strategic Thought and Architecture Practice" and then "Online", and finally "Alibaba Tiejun Sales Course" which has been added to the bookshelf and is ready to be read. I hope that through these books, I can learn from the technical perspective, to the product perspective, and then to the operation and business perspective. Understand the development context of Alibaba's culture.
Speaking of the book "Online", this book should be a collection of the thoughts of Dr. Wang Jian, the former CTO of Alibaba Group; Wang Jian is a CTO with a PhD in psychology. Nature is full of more insights into human nature and society. Wang Jian is what Charlie Munger calls a person who has mastered multiple thinking models. Reading articles written by such a person will naturally make you feel enlightened and addicted; if you can keep up with his thinking, you need to master multiple fields like him. Basic principles: Thinking from multiple angles and aspects. The book is named "Online", but the content is an introduction to the Alibaba Group from IOE to the development of Alibaba Cloud Feitian and then to the development of the yunOS operating system. Only those who have experienced it will know the difficulties. Of course, when reading this type of book, the focus is on absorbing and quoting, drawing energy from the book, and hoping to unearth some of Alibaba's alternative culture with personal goals. It is also necessary to start with the details and think deeply. For example:
? "Don't think about using data to improve an existing business. That's not what big data should do. What big data should do is what it used to be. Things that can’t be done.”? Here I feel that Dr. Wang Jian must have carried out in-depth practice in the Alibaba Group and summed up this sentence. Although I do not have a deep understanding of this content, why can’t big data improve a company? What about existing business? I think Wang Jian should have found more treasures from big data here. For example, if you do something with a purpose, it turns out that in the process of doing something, you find another thing that you should do more focus instead on the original goal. This refers to Alibaba becoming what it is now. Alibaba did not plan to become what it is now from the beginning, but by doing it, it has done things that could not be done before.
"In online games, there is a type of character development game. Raising a virtual character requires the computing power of the server, and the computing power comes from the consumption of electricity. Consumption will produce carbon dioxide. Therefore, someone has calculated that the carbon dioxide produced by raising a virtual character on the Internet is the same as raising a real person. "The theme of "online" is highlighted here, and the future world should be a world where everything is online. In the world, the Internet of Everything is not the purpose, but being online is the purpose. So with this sentence, after being online, a virtual world is built. In this virtual world, you have various personalities, various labels, these numbers and Labels constitute a new you.
? "It was also in that year that I went to Silicon Valley in the United States and shared the basics of "Flying" for the first time in a speech at Stanford University. Thoughts. Many people think that doing things like "flying" in China is not reliable at all. I think they are right. No one in the world would think this is reliable because it is too difficult. But what is interesting is that later. There are many skeptical people who have joined Alibaba Cloud to engage in the research and development of "Feitian" technology. Because doing cloud computing requires a bit of romanticism, otherwise it will not work well." Here is the story of the beginning of Feitian. , it can be seen from one side that what drives a group to make rapid progress must be a grand vision, which requires romantic people to carry out some divergence. The latter part of the book talks about the Apollo moon landing program, from the background of the Apollo moon landing program to the current reality. The current scientific development has been a long time since humans first landed on the moon, but there is still no such thing as another one. The manned moon landing once again proved that confidence and romanticism are the keys to moving things forward.
At the end of the group interview, I forgot to ask him a technical question. I only remembered his answer: "Whatever you do, you have to let go of your arrogance." , any arrogance will hinder your understanding and innovation.
"Such an answer reminds me of what was said in "Three-Body III: Immortality of Death": "Ignorance and weakness are not obstacles to survival, arrogance is. "? Doctors who are familiar with psychology obviously have a deeper understanding of arrogance. Today, Alibaba Cloud's share is slowly being approached by other cloud providers. I don't know if the doctor has a deep feeling here.
I have always thought that it is small and medium-sized enterprises that help us survive. We must learn to understand how others help us, rather than indulge in the arrogance of helping others all day long. As time has developed, we have seen that. The rise of Pinduoduo has seen the Jiang Fan incident. We certainly believe that the incident is not isolated. Did Alibaba finally insist on practicing its own values ??
Some colleagues once talked about it. The view of this industry sounds very much like the report of a consulting company. I say you can't understand this industry unless you do two things: first, you receive more business cards than me; second, you have more used boarding passes. I have more. For some things, you haven't seen enough people to make a judgment. Many things cannot be thought of at home. It is easy to go out and study the competitors, but it is difficult to get a business card. A few years ago, a colleague said that he had received more business cards and used more boarding passes than me, so I knew there was hope. We had met a lot of people who seemed unreliable, even like scammers. , talking with them in the hotel in the middle of the night, but it is these people who make those of us who have never experienced it understand things that we could not understand before, and help us get closer to our goal
I have a deep understanding that no matter what choice a person, a group, or a country makes, it is reasonable. The question is why the choice made in that environment is Is it reasonable? This book talks about the cloud server of Wancrab Company being taken offline for no reason due to registration issues. It is extremely crazy and exaggerated that such service problems can exist in Alibaba Cloud; if the boss of a company does not After this happens, the company will not go far. This proves the saying that if you can survive in the present, you will always choose long-term interests. It must be the result of not choosing forward benefits in the past days. In order to end this cycle, we still have to choose forward benefits.